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Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men.

George S. Patton

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
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People Surprise
Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best and it removes all that is base.
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Battle Competition Human Being Remove
War is the supreme test of man in which he rises to heights never approached in any other activity.
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Activity Approach Height Man Rise Supreme Test War
I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
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Bottom Bounce Climb Measure Success
Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.
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Content Country Himself Life Mediocrity Tradition True Walk
Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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Coward Fatigue One Liner
War is the only place where a man lives.
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Live Man Place War
No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country.
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Bastard Country Die Poor War Win
I am a soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.
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Army Fight Soldier Win
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
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Fight Men Spirit Victory War Weapon Win
Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.
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Fault Ideas Little Soldier War
No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.
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Chair Decision
May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won’t.
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Enemy God Mercy
The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one’s country.
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Army Citizen Country Soldier
A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.
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Blood Sweat War
When in doubt, ATTACK!
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Army Attack Doubt War

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